contraildash

Just finished my test this morning. There were 8 of us, with 4 AD counters, and 3 FACers to supervise. All in all it was much better than the first time I tested under the new standards back in Sept. The FACers were rather fair in their supervision of the test, long gone were the PT gestapo types. I was corrected a few times, but it was for small stuff, and I only had two pushups not counted. The new 'target points' were a joke. Everyone was cracking up about them, as we all still had to jump around the chart to figure out our required scores as we went along. I just used them as a baseline: if I'm doing better than these, then I don't have to worry. My only realy complaint: running indoors. 23 laps, 96 turns. I ran two practice PFTs outside in the past week, and even in sub freezing temps and snow I was running in the 10:30-10:45 range. Today my run time was 13:07. Painful, you just couldn't keep speed around the corners even if you were doing it race car style hitting the apex. I don't see how they think you can run a 1.5 around a basketball court and not loose time. In the fall I had a component failure, but still scored an 85. Today I increased my situps, pushups, and waist, but scored in the 70's because of my run. Had I run my usual time, I would have had a score in the mid-to-high 80's. Per the new memo, we had to run inside. Temps were below freezing and it was "snaining" outside. Not that I would have run outside, snow isn't a big deal to me. Freezing rain/whatever is. Out of the 8 of us, I was the third to finish. I'm pretty sure only one or two other guys made the 14:00 cut (I think that's the limit). So your point about people being on the verge is spot on. I already started to spread the word around my SQ.

Found the memo: HERE I found my answer on the points: nothing has changed. All they did was 'highlight" one possible combination to get 75 points. You still need to meet the minimum AND score a 75. If you don't get the min, then you still fail and now get zero points. Seems like they got tired of hearing "yeah I failed but still scored a 88."

So the article mentions how the minimums all add up to 75 points now. Did they adjust the points or adjust the minimum number to match this? Also, if the new min temp is 20 I better not get bitched at for wearing my UA thermals, gloves, and beanie. That's balls cold and we all know that our PT tracksuits (which are made from recycled coleman tents) don't do anything but add extra drag and noise. That's if you can even find one at the uniform shop that's not an extra small.

My take on this: who exactly is "their person"? Can I have one dude carry all our reflective belts? Chief: "hey were is your RB?" us: "on my person....he (point at dude with all the RBs) is my person"

All depends on the house. Our rooms are big enough, but the issue we had was actually getting things INTO the house. Strangley short doorframes, narrow halls, tight staircases, ect. I say bring it.

Found an old forum from 2008 talking about this, apparently the plane had engine issues in the days prior to the bad landing, and in fact lost power on approach. Not sure if that's 100% valid, but sounded plausible to me.

I was on a SW flight a few years back and they held the jet about 10 minutes to allow a handful of connecting passengers make it from one side of the terminal to our gate. Some pax were grumpy about it, but the head FA got on the intercom and said something about "think about if it was you trying to make the connection." I was impressed.

You wouldn't want to anyways, it's a pain in the ass (no matter where you are going, they route you over Paris), their controllers pretty much blow, and the half dozen times I've been through there there's always some jacknuts blabbing to his buddy over guard. They only upside: some of the gals controlling have that super sexy voice. Another downside: I'm sure of few of those are dudes.

Isn't that the usual guy who writes about how we need a bazillion fighters?

Wait so they are saying aviation cadets flew in combat? Never heard that before...

The BBB is a sham. Saw a report on how they were black mailing companies nation wide to become a paying member of their services or get reported on their bad list. Pretty interesting actually.

I have flat ass feet. Didn't keep me from getting in.

I liked the actual gun shots at 4:00 leading into "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo" nice!

You should see some of the comments on C-Springs news pages, they are f'n horrible.

1)is there anything someone like myself can do prior to/and durring IQT that can help prepare for that? 2)With Beale being the beddown, is the plan to start holding onto folks and treating it like a MWS?

And it was like that all day according to my FBO buddies there. Tough day for flying.

I knew this guy at IFS. Godspeed.

So you're saying there's still a chance....

That takes some balls! Safety report HERE.

Thread revival. Here at my base, they are holding the run inside due to the winter weather. No big deal right? Only if you don't mind running 24 laps around the b-ball court in the gym. It doesn't seem right or even safe to me. When I took the test in the late summer, we didn't run on the track or around a 1.5 mile course. Instead we did a 1.5 mile shuttle run (four 0.375 mile legs) thats on a slight incline. No kidding, you ran, touched a white line, then ran back to the start/finish line. I'm fairly certain that in both tests, you'll loose significant time. My run time was about 20 seconds slower than my average times I had been running in the months leading up to my test. The stop/start thing was murder. And my knees are not looking forward to the "basketball court NASCAR challenge". Does it specify in the regs on how the run is supposed to be administered?

Has anyone ever posted pics of their wife?

Germany built whore houses when they hosted the World Cup...

Any chance he has a son that went to Texas A&M back while he was up at the USAFA? Trying to connect some names in my fuzzy memory....

Then there's the three way tie in the Big 12 south....BCS polls get to decide that one tomorrow. I hate the BCS.

It is the Fist of Justice. I heard the story once, but I wouldn't tell it right. Even better, I'm fairly certain that this is on the 'standard AF screen-saver' at work.